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- We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
- A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
- Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
- If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
- The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any…
- Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
- Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A…
- Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.
- A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths…
- Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But…
- Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a loom. They spoke…
- I saw myself. . . in the time I watched, I saw strength and frailty, pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little.…
- ...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
- Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more…
- ...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater…
- Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a…
- Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have…
- There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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